We recognise that there is an urgent need to
establish a principled solidarity campaign with the people of Iran. The
contradictions between the interests of the neo-conservatives in power in the
USA and the defenders of the rule of capital in the Islamic Republic has
entered a dangerous new phase.

US
imperialism and its allies are intent on regime change from above and are
seriously considering options to impose this - sanctions, diplomatic
pressure, limited strikes or perhaps bombing the country back to the stone
age.

In Iran,
the theocracy is using the international outcry against its nuclear weapons
programme to divert attention away from the country’s endemic crisis, deflect
popular anger onto foreign enemies and thus prolong its reactionary rule.

The pretext of external threats has been cynically used
to justify increased internal repression. The regime’s security apparatus has
been unleashed on its political opponents, workers, women and youth. The
rising tide of daily working class anti-capitalist struggles has been met
with arrests, the ratification of new anti-labour laws and sweeping
privatisations. Under the new Iranian government, military-fascist
organisations are gaining political and military strength, posing an ominous
threat to the working class and democratic opposition.

Paradoxically, the US/UK invasion of Iraq
has actually increased the regional influence of Iran’s
rulers - it lead to the election of the pro-Iranian Shia government currently
in power in Baghdad.

This means that any support from the anti-war movement
for the reactionaries who currently govern Iran
and repress its people is in effect indirect support for the occupation
government in Iraq.

We recognise that effective resistance to this war can
only mean the militant defence of the struggles of the working class in Iran
and of the rising social movements in that country. We want regime change -
both in Iran
and in the imperialist countries. But we know that change must come from
below - from the struggles of the working class and social movements - if it
is to lead to genuine liberation.

We call on all anti-capitalist forces, progressive
political groups and social organisations to join with the activists of the
Iranian left to both oppose the imperialism’s plans and to organise practical
solidarity with the growing movement against war and repression in Iran
headed by the working class, women, students and youth.

Our campaign demands:

No to imperialist
war! No to the theocratic regime!

The immediate and
unconditional withdrawal of US/UK troops from the Gulf region!

Opposition to Israeli
expansionism and aggression!

Support to all
working class and progressive struggles in Iran
against the poverty and repression!

Support for
socialism, democracy and workers’ control in Iran!

For a nuclear free Middle
East!

If you support the struggle for
an Iran
free of the oppressive clerical regime, but oppose the war plans of the
imperialists - join us!